I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

Camille Anna Paglia

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Barbara Tuchman

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

William J. Clinton

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

John Ruskin

Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

Robert Montgomery

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

Lucy Powell

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Anais Nin

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

Travis Barker

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

David Mitchell